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Originally Posted by 4oh3

The tweets aren't fake. It happened when Joel ward barrows them too. I'm rooting for Montreal now. The classless bruins fit the classless city of Boston.

...or not.

http://deadspin.com/bruins-condemn-f...sub-1570906828

There's the tendency to pile on Boston and its pretty terrible history of race relations, and, of course, this same damn thing happened there with Joel Ward two years ago. But search Twitter any time a black player does something notable, especially in a sport with as proportionately white a fan base as hockey's, and you're going to find ugly stuff. Rangers fans flung slurs after Wayne Simmonds's hat trick on Tuesday. Evander Kane hears it all the time. Hell, someone in Montreal threw a banana at Kevin Weekes. This isn't a Boston thing; it isn't a hockey thing; it isn't a sports thing. It's a some-human-beings-are-awful-and-Twitter-makes-it-easier thing.